Into the Maelstrom : America and Vietnam , 1945 – 1956
Hồ Chí Minh in 1945 ( fifth from left standing ) with members of the clandestine Office of Special Services ( OSS ) Deer Team ( from l . to r .: Rene Defourneaux , ( Ho ), Allison Thomas , ( Giap ), Henry Prunier and Paul Hoagland , far right . Kneeling , left , are Lawrence Vogt and Aaron Squires ). Black and White Photographs of U . S . Air Force and Predecessors ’ Activities , Facilities , and Personnel , Domestic and Foreign , 1930 – 1975 . 6
In 1945 , members of the American " Deer Team ," part of the OSS , worked with Vietnamese guerrilla fighters to throw Japanese troops out of Indochina . As the war ended , the people of Vietnam looked to the United States to support their dreams of independence . Source : The OSS in Vietnam , 1945 : A War of Missed Opportunities by Dixee Bartholomew-Feis . 7
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